Trinity College Trinity College Digital Repository Senior Theses and Projects Student Scholarship Spring 2019 Sculpting in Marble and Fresco: Michelangelo's Julius II Tomb as Template for the Sistine Chapel Ceiling Jillian Gates
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/theses Part of the History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology Commons Recommended Citation Gates, Jillian, "Sculpting in Marble and Fresco: Michelangelo's Julius II Tomb as Template for the Sistine Chapel Ceiling". Senior Theses, Trinity College, Hartford, CT 2019. Trinity College Digital Repository, https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/theses/754 Sculpting in Marble and Fresco: Michelangelo’s Julius II Tomb as Template for the Sistine Chapel Ceiling A Senior Thesis Presented By Jillian Gates To the Art History Department In Fulfillment of the Requirements for Honors in Art History Advisor: Professor Kristin Triff Trinity College Hartford, Connecticut May 2019 2 Table of Contents Table of Contents …………………………………………………………………………. 2 Chapter I: Introduction ……………………………………………………………………. 3 Chapter II: Julius II Tomb ……………………………………………………………….. 15 Chapter III: Sistine Chapel Ceiling ………………………………………………………. 33 Chapter IV: Conceptual Similarities ……………………………………………………… 47 Chapter V: A Shared Vision ………………………………………………………………. 54 Chapter VI: Figure Similarities …………………………………………………………… 58 Chapter VII: Consequences of Michelangelo’s Technique After the Ceiling …………… 64 Chapter VIII: Conclusion …………………………………………………………………… 71 Bibliography ………………………………………………………………………………….. 74 Appendix ……………………………………………………………………………………… 76 3 Chapter I: Introduction As a seminal artistic figure of the early Renaissance period, Michelangelo produced works of art that defined the canon of art. Through his early sculpted and painted works, the ambitions Michelangelo had for himself as an artist were evident. Not only were the works he created masterful for such a young age, but they also pushed the boundaries of existing artistic and stylistic techniques.